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Why is the IIS default app pool recycle set to 1740 minutes? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Microsoft IIS Server has what appears to be an odd default for the application pool recycle time. It defaults to 1740 minutes, which is exactly 29 hours. I’ve always been a bit curious where that default came from. If you’re like me, you may have wondered...

Working past 500–Internal server error by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

So you’ve written a new ASP.Net website, tested it locally in your development environment and you deploy it to your IIS server. Now you’re getting the dreaded 500 – Internal server error. What are you to do? As you may know, a HTTP 500 error is a generic...
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Restricting web site traffic in IIS 7 and IIS 8 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Sometimes you need to restrict traffic to your web site or reduce the impact from a rogue bot that is hitting it. Often, the first thought is to restrict that traffic at the perimeter firewall. While that is a good choice, the structure of your organization...

Using WebDAV with ARR by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Application Request Routing (ARR) is a great solution for load balancing and other proxying needs. I’m a big fan and have written often about it. I had someone ask me this week about WebDAV support for ARR. With his ARR setup, he noted that WebDAV creation...
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Handing MVC paths with dots in the path by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

A friend of mine asked me recently how to handle a situation with a dot (.) in the path for an MVC project.  The path looked something like this: http://domain.com/aspnet/CLR4.0 The MVC routes didn’t work for this path and the standard IIS 404 handler...
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Serving files from a remote server in IIS 7 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

There is a question that I have been seeing more of in recent weeks. While it comes in different varieties, the essence of it has to do with having your files located on a server or device other than the IIS web server. One variety of the question has...
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How to manage a Windows cloud server by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Managing a Windows cloud server can be a relatively easy task; especially if you know the basics. Check out the post I put together with the initial information that you need to know to get the most out of your Windows cloud server. http://www.orcsweb...
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Keeping Multiple IIS 7 Servers in Sync with Shared Configuration by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

If you have multiple front-end web servers serving up your content for your Internet Application, you will want to keep both the content and the Internet Information Services (IIS) settings synchronized between all the servers. That is where IIS Shared...
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Where is my IIS change going to be applied? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

When you make a change to a website in Internet Information Services (IIS) 6, it is straightforward where your change was going to be applied. All information is stored in the Metabase. Starting with IIS 7, information is stored in a variety of places...
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Easy Web Development With IIS Express by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Triggered by a question in the forums the other day, I had started working on a blog post about IIS Express and how it works compared to Visual Studio Development web server, also known as Cassini. During my research I came across this well written and...
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Windows 8 / IIS 8 Concurrent Requests Limit by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012 doesn’t have any fixed concurrent request limit, apart from whatever limit would be reached when resources are maxed. However, the client version of IIS 8, which is on Windows 8, does have a concurrent connection request limitation...
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URL Rewrite – Protocol (http/https) in the Action by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

IIS URL Rewrite supports server variables for pretty much every part of the URL and http header. However, there is one commonly used server variable that isn’t readily available.  That’s the protocol—HTTP or HTTPS. You can easily check if a page...
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Introducing Testing Domain - localtest.me by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Save this URL, memorize it, write it on a sticky note, tweet it, tell your colleagues about it!  localtest.me ( http://localtest.me ) and *.localtest.me ( http://something.localtest.me ) If you do any testing on your local system you’ve probably...
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Google and Geo-location, CNDs, DNS Load Balancing-Week 50 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

You can find this week’s video here . This week answers two Q&A questions from viewers. DNS Load Balancing and then some discussion and a walkthrough using Application Request Routing (ARR) for a Content Delivery Network (CDN). There’s a growing movement...
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Release Candidates of Application Initialization and Dynamic IP Restrictions Released by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Two new Release Candidates for the following IIS Extensions have been released today: Application Initialization for IIS 7.5 (the replacement for the previously released Application Warmup beta extension) Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS7/7.5 Application...
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